Statistics: United States

An estimated 1.2 million people in the United States were living with HIV at the end of 2014, the most recent year for which information is available. Of those, about 15%, or 1 in 7, did not know they were infected.

Among people aged 13-24, an estimated 51% of those living with HIV at the end of 2013 didn’t know they were infected.

In 2015, 39,513 people were diagnosed with HIV infection in the United States.

In the United States, 6,721 people died from HIV and AIDS in 2014.

In 2015, 18,303 people were diagnosed with AIDS. Since the epidemic began in the early 1980s, 1,216,917 people have been diagnosed with AIDS.

One in four people living with HIV in the United States are women.

Most HIV-positive women contracted the virus through heterosexual sex.

In 2015, gay and bisexual men accounted for 82% of HIV diagnoses among males and 67% of all diagnoses, although they comprise only 4% of the U.S. male population.

In 2015, African Americans accounted for 45% of HIV diagnoses, although they comprise only 12% of the population.

In 2015, 37% of all new infections occurred among people aged 20-29, followed by individuals aged 30-39 at 24%,

In 2014, Southern states accounted for an estimated 44% of all people living with an HIV diagnosis in the U.S., despite having only about one-third (37%) of the overall U.S. population.